Sentence examples for defend morality from inspiring English sources

Philip's stubborn resolve to defend morality and the faith was shown when, with royal acquiescence, the grand master of the Templars, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake after retracting his earlier confession.

Striving to defend morality and its religious foundations, these persons dismiss the problematic science.

There was a fine dividing line between applying moral standards and promoting political doctrines, but Goldstone believed that "in my view, if a judge is to err, it should be on the side of defending morality".

Whereas pluralistic moral theories are defined in terms of the number and kind of basic moral norms they defend, common morality theories focus on the ultimate source of our principles, rules, and ideals.

A good deal of the work that has been done defending moral realism is devoted either to meeting these burdens or to showing that they do not pose a special problem just for morality.

"I defend the morality of decisions by categories and by generalizations," he writes.

And Mr. Kimiai was recently summoned to appear in an Iranian court to defend the morality of one of his films.

The rationale offered for DOMA at the time was that Congress was trying to encourage responsible procreation and child-bearing, to bolster the institution of heterosexual marriage, and to defend traditional morality.

The philosopher who responds negatively to her work finds many biased and simplistic interpretations of philosophers and philosophical doctrines, including her claim that she is the first to consistently defend a morality of rational self-interest, all other philosophers having defended either altruism or mysticism (Pojman 1995).

Republicans in nominated Donald Trump abdicated any right to assert they defend "traditional morality" or common decency.

(The fact that some people are willing to defend the morality of hurting or killing someone for wearing the "wrong" bit of fabric says a lot more about us than it does the fabric).